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CHAPTER IV
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Everywhere the mist lay dense as cotton wool, except at one spot about a mile behind us where there was a little hill or rather a wave of the ground, over which we had trekked upon the preceding evening.

The top of this rise was above mist level, and on it no trees grew because the granite came to the surface.

Having discovered nothing, I called to the boys to drive up the oxen, some of which had risen and were eating again, and prepared to descend from my tree.
As I did so, out of the corner of my eye I caught sight of something that glittered far away, so far that it would only have attracted the notice of a trained hunter.

Yes, something was shining on the brow of the rise of which I have spoken.

I stared at it through my glasses and saw what I had feared to see.


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